vii, 333 pages ; 24 cm

This study of good and evil examines the presence of ritual violence in sacred ceremony

Translation of: La violence et le sacré

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-323) and index

Sacrifice -- The sacrificial crisis -- Oedipus and the surrogate victim -- The origins of myth and ritual -- Dionysus -- From mimetic desire to the monstrous double -- Freud and the Oedipus complex -- Totem and Taboo and the incest prohibition -- Levi-Strauss, structuralism, and marriage laws -- The gods, the dead, the sacred, and sacrificial substitution -- The unity of all rites

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